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In order to encourage the establishment of communities in the Western lands Congress set aside land for what?

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The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west.
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